Zone1 What makes Christianity different from other religions?

[ding]

94% of blacks would disagree with you that Democrats are the party of racism, slavery, bigotry and segregation.
This fact proves my premise that humans are extremely easy to indoctrinate into political and religious beliefs. They can be persuaded to believe almost anything. Even god inspiration.

And yet you are using that minister as evidence against Christianity. You literally just discredited your own witness. You can’t be objective about Christianity because you blame Christianity for what happened to you rather than blaming the man who did it to you.

 

[GLASNOST]

..... humans are extremely easy to indoctrinate into political and religious beliefs. They can be persuaded to believe almost anything.

Not "almost anything" - Just about anything

Even god inspiration.

Yes, even that. Particulalry that.

 

[GLASNOST]

..... Christianity was used to keep black people in poverty .....

Apartheid was based upon it.

Unfortunately human history is such that even slaves were made to believe that nonsense and blacks accepted their lot in life of poverty as a "virtue".

Not only blacks but whites too. There is a whole country (a nuclear bomb country) the population of which believe it is the leader of the free, democratic world .... that hot water freezes faster .... and that 'irregardless' is a real word.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

And yet you are using that minister as evidence against Christianity. You literally just discredited your own witness. You can’t be objective about Christianity because you blame Christianity for what happened to you rather than blaming the man who did it to you.

When you can tell me just what Christianity is, get back to me. It is so watered down and vague that AOC can claim she's a Christian. For that matter, anyone at all can claim they are one.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Apartheid was based upon it.

Not only blacks but whites too. There is a whole country (a nuclear bomb country) the population of which believe it is the leader of the free, democratic world .... that hot water freezes faster .... and that 'irregardless' is a real word.

Are you suggesting that Trump has not reclaimed America as the leader of the world, instead of the insane globalists under Obama saying even Iran should have nukes, and leaving 80 billion i9n equipment to Afghanistan? ?

 

[GLASNOST]

Are you suggesting that Trump has not reclaimed America as the leader of the world, instead of the insane globalists under Obama saying even Iran should have nukes, and leaving 80 billion i9n equipment to Afghanistan? ?

That's a loaded question - three, in fact. Let's take the first one: It takes more than a few months to create a world leader but the US is now heading in the right direction to achieve it. You won't like my answers to the second and third questions.

 

[Dragonlady]

94% of blacks would disagree with you that Democrats are the party of racism, slavery, bigotry and segregation.
This fact proves my premise that humans are extremely easy to indoctrinate into political and religious beliefs. They can be persuaded to believe almost anything. Even god inspiration.

The Republican lies about Democrats have no basis in the real world of 2025. I find it laughable that YOU think that black churches are preaching politics from the pulpit.

Nobody has to preach against Republican policies because everyone in the WORLD knows that they don't work for the American people. Republican tax and labour policies have destroyed the American working class, and impoverished the American middle class, all to the benefit of top 10% of the wealthiest Americans and their corporations.

Republicans have crashed the economy 3 times in the past 45 years and they're well on their way to a 4th economic crash. These people are fiscally incompetent, and completely incapable of successfully managing ANYTHING.

As a Christian woman, I would never vote for a party which denies a woman's right to maternal health care, including miscarriage and abortion care. You have the highest rate of maternal death in pregnancy and childbirth in the first world. BY FAR. And that was before the SC over turned Roe v Wade. Since Roe v Wade, that death rate has gone up more than 50% in the USA as a whole, but more than doubled in states which ban maternal health care after 6 weeks.

As a Christian woman, I would NEVER vote for a party which would deny immigrants the right to claim asylum.

As a Christian woman, I would never vote for a party which demonizes, and promotes hatred against those who disagrees with their racist, xenophobia and misogynistic policies and religions. Democrats are not "demons", "evil", or "out to destroy America".

As a Christian woman, I would never vote for someone who lies, cheats and steals from anyone who has ever entrusted their life savings to him. Who openly brags about abusing women, and who bullies and attacks anyone who criticizes him. Or who think's he has the right to walk in on, and "inspect" naked teenage girls because he "owns" the pageant.

 

[Dragonlady]

Are you suggesting that Trump has not reclaimed America as the leader of the world, instead of the insane globalists under Obama saying even Iran should have nukes, and leaving 80 billion i9n equipment to Afghanistan? ?

Not only has Trump not "reclaimed" world leadership, he is not even on the same playing field as the rest of the free world. Trump has joined the other side, and nobody in the Free World believes a thing he says.

Obama NEVER said that Iran should have nukes. Obama signed a treat to ensure they would NEVER HAVE NUKES, and Trump tore it up. Iran wouldn't even have been enriching uranium if not for Trump.

Trump is also the guy who let Kim develop nukes in North Korea, and left $80 billion in equipment in Afghanistan. That military equipment had been left behind when Trump pulled all but 2500 US Troops out of Afghanistan.

Biden had to send troops back into Afghanistan just to get the 150,000 people he saved, out of the country,

 

[Paradoxical#1]

The Republican lies about Democrats have no basis in the real world of 2025. I find it laughable that YOU think that black churches are preaching politics from the pulpit.

Nobody has to preach against Republican policies because everyone in the WORLD knows that they don't work for the American people. Republican tax and labour policies have destroyed the American working class, and impoverished the American middle class, all to the benefit of top 10% of the wealthiest Americans and their corporations.

Republicans have crashed the economy 3 times in the past 45 years and they're well on their way to a 4th economic crash. These people are fiscally incompetent, and completely incapable of successfully managing ANYTHING.

As a Christian woman, I would never vote for a party which denies a woman's right to maternal health care, including miscarriage and abortion care. You have the highest rate of maternal death in pregnancy and childbirth in the first world. BY FAR. And that was before the SC over turned Roe v Wade. Since Roe v Wade, that death rate has gone up more than 50% in the USA as a whole, but more than doubled in states which ban maternal health care after 6 weeks.

As a Christian woman, I would NEVER vote for a party which would deny immigrants the right to claim asylum.

As a Christian woman, I would never vote for a party which demonizes, and promotes hatred against those who disagrees with their racist, xenophobia and misogynistic policies and religions. Democrats are not "demons", "evil", or "out to destroy America".

As a Christian woman, I would never vote for someone who lies, cheats and steals from anyone who has ever entrusted their life savings to him. Who openly brags about abusing women, and who bullies and attacks anyone who criticizes him. Or who think's he has the right to walk in on, and "inspect" naked teenage girls because he "owns" the pageant.

You're a Christian and think abortion is moral? Trump did not make that decision anyway. The highest court in the land did. Trump's economy and policies are glorious. His tariffs have brought in billions and he is getting rid of the criminal illegals.

BTW, how many murders in DC after Trump arrested criminals and illegals?

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Not only has Trump not "reclaimed" world leadership, he is not even on the same playing field as the rest of the free world. Trump has joined the other side, and nobody in the Free World believes a thing he says.

Obama NEVER said that Iran should have nukes. Obama signed a treat to ensure they would NEVER HAVE NUKES, and Trump tore it up. Iran wouldn't even have been enriching uranium if not for Trump.

Trump is also the guy who let Kim develop nukes in North Korea, and left $80 billion in equipment in Afghanistan. That military equipment had been left behind when Trump pulled all but 2500 US Troops out of Afghanistan.

Biden had to send troops back into Afghanistan just to get the 150,000 people he saved, out of the country,

Blinken left that equipment there. They had 10 months to move it and did nothing. The world leaders love and respect Trump. They disdained your vegetable.

 

[Zebra]

The Catholic Church believes in Saints, and that the Pope is God's emissary on earth. The Presbyterian Church believes the Pope is the Anti-Christ. The Baptists believe you have to achieve the age of reason before Baptism. The Catholics believe that unless you are baptized at birth, you cannot be buried on consecrated ground.

Catholics don't believe in divorce, but the Pope can give you one.

Anglicans believe in divorce, but not remarriage.

Fundamentalists do not allow remarriage.

Jehovah's Witnesses cannot enter into any Church that isn't a Kingdom Hall, because these aren't the true churches.

How is Christianity a "much cleaner departure".

who really thinks that the Pope is the Anti.Christ?

 

[irosie91]

who really thinks that the Pope is the Anti.Christ?

maybe only some popes. btw----can you define "anti-christ"-----did Jesus know?

 

[Dragonlady]

who really thinks that the Pope is the Anti.Christ?

At the time the thing was written, it wasn't really a flight of fancy. The Spanish Inquisition alone would give one pause in the 16th Century, not to mention the political machinations of the Vatican throughout the Middle Ages.

The corruption of the Catholic Church lead to the Reformation.

 

[GLASNOST]

who really thinks that the Pope is the Anti.Christ?

Well, here is a Denkmal in his honour but you probably don't know what that is:

 

[Zebra]

Well, here is a Denkmal in his honour but you probably don't know what that is:

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is it from the Freiburg Cathedral?

 

[GLASNOST]

is it from the Freiburg Cathedral?

Very good, Zebra!

 

[Zebra]

Very good, Zebra!

I have seen it myself ... one remembers ....

 

[GLASNOST]

I have seen it myself ... one remembers ....

Every time I met a tourist I took them to see it. It isn't easy to see. You have to point it out very clearly.

 

[Zebra]

Every time I met a tourist I took them to see it. It isn't easy to see. You have to point it out very clearly.

yes, you must know exactly where it is

 

[hobelim]

How many good works did the thief dying next to Jesus on the cross do before he died?

VLADIMIR
Two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour. One—

ESTRAGON
Our what?

VLADIMIR
Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . damned.

ESTRAGON
Saved from what?

VLADIMIR
We are all born mad. Some remain so.


Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot.